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Biographical sketch: Director of planning, National Institute of Mental Health (Bethesda, Md.); consultant, special assistant to the secretary, U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development; professor of public health and urban planning. Of Washington, D.C.; Berkeley, Calif.

Abstract: Correspondence; articles; meeting transcripts & related records; policy studies; project records; student files, courses, papers, & dissertations; audio-visual materials; and other records regarding the National Institute of Mental Health, 1956-1967; U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, 1965-1967; and the U.S. Dept. of Health, Education & Welfare, 1961-1963. They include material on urban problems, planning, projects, & renewal; poverty; community mental health; the Peace Corps; world health care; the WHO Healthy Cities Project, which he founded; and the effects of poverty & urban conditions on mental health. Material from Leonard J. Duhl's years at the University of California, Berkeley, includes conferences on health care promotion, 1970-1979; correspondence with colleagues, 1960-1989; dissertations of those he advised; student recommendations & correspondence, 1960-1989; manuscripts & reprints by him, 1960-1989; papers relating to foreign travel, 1960-1969; and cassette tapes & reels, 1960-1999.

Biog. Sketch (Full):

Leonard J. Duhl was born 24 May 1926 in New York, New York. He received a bachelors degree from Columbia University in New York City in 1945 and a doctorate in medicine from Albany Medical College in New York in 1948. He was an intern at the Jewish Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, in 1948 and 1949; a fellow of the Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, from 1949 until 1951, fulfilling his residency at the Winter (now Colmery - O'Neil) Veterans Administration Hospital in Topeka.

He was a senior assistant surgeon in the United States Public Health Service from 1951 through 1953, assigned to the Contra Costa County, California, Health Department in Martinez directing tuberculosis control work. While there, he also led a study of the emotional impact of a community X-ray survey. He returned to Menninger as a fellow in 1953 and 1954. During the years 1954 through 1972, when he retired, he served as a medical director of the Public Health Service. He also graduated from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute (now the Washington Center for Psychoanalysis) in the District of Columbia in 1964.

From 1954 through 1964 he was a psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1966 he became chief of the Institute's Office of Planning. Two years later, he was named a special assistant to the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs in Washington, D.C.; he served in that capacity until 1968.

In that year Dr. Duhl became a professor of public health and city planning at the School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. He also held an appointment as clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. In addition to teaching, he was extremely active throughout the world in the fields of urban health services, the effects of urban conditions on residents' health, city planning, social change, and the elimination of poverty. He was the founder of the Healthy Cities movement, later adopted as a project by the World Health Organization and many municipalities in California and worldwide.

He concurrently served as a co-director of documentation and evaluation of experimental schools programs for the Berkeley Unified School District, 1971-73, and worked in the Health and Medical Sciences Program at the University of California, Berkeley, 1972-76, serving as director of the dual degree option and integrating seminars programs, 1973-76.

He has served as an adviser, chairman, or expert member of a large number of boards, committees, and organizations including the World Health Organization; the National Institute of Public Management; the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Inc.; National Training Laboratories; the National Academy of Science; the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the American Association on Mental Deficiency; and State and local government agencies in California, New York, and the District of Columbia. In addition to his University of California professorships, he has taught at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center; George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; and been a visiting lecturer at many other schools.

He has been a consultant to a large number of organizations including the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund; the National Institute for Citizen Participation and Negotiation; the World Health Organization; the National Civic League; the State of California; the Canada Health and Welfare Department; the National Institute of Education; the National Institute of Mental Health; the American Institute of Research; the President's Panel on Young Childhood Patterns; the President's Commission on Civil Disorders; the Study Group for a National Youth Corps; the Public Health Service; the National Education Association; the Peace Corps; and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. He is a member of a multitude of professional organizations and has been profiled in over fifteen professional directories. He is certified in psychiatry by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and licensed to practice medicine in four States and the District of Columbia.

He has written books, chapters, and articles on communities, urban conditions, health services, health planning, social change, health care reform, mental health and urban social policies, sociology, Healthy Cities, ecosystems, balanced health care networks, public health, psychiatry, poverty, universities' roles in public health, school reform, mental retardation, the Peace Corps, and related topics.

He became a trustee of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka in 1994. He is retired and lives in Berkeley.

Contents: Ser. 228488. Biographical material about Leonard J. Duhl, 1969-1996 (box 1) -- ser. 228489. Papers relating to Leonard J. Duhl's professional positions, 1951-1999 (boxes 1-14) -- ser. 228625. Papers relating to Leonard J. Duhl's organizational affiliations, 1959-1997 (boxes 14-16) -- ser. 228632. Manuscripts and other writings of Leonard J. Duhl, 1958-2000 (boxes 16-20) -- ser. 228633. Papers relating to other interests of Leonard J. Duhl, 1951-1999 (boxes 21-23) -- ser. 228635. Letter, tribute, and other items of Leonard J. Duhl, 1958-1986 (box 23) -- ser. 228636. Audio-visual materials in Leonard J. Duhl's papers, [ca. 1951-ca. 2000] (boxes 23-26).

Associated materials: Other Papers, [ca. 1952]-1996, 24 ft., at the University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library: collection BANC MSS 2001/139; cf. http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/search~S1?/aDuhl%2C+Leonard+J./aduhl+leonard+j/1%2C1%2C23%2CB/frameset&FF=aduhl+leonard+j&8%2C%2C23. Also photographs: Portraits of Robert F. Kennedy, Karl Menninger and William Claire Menninger from the Leonard J. Duhl papers [graphic], [ca. 1950-ca. 1960], 1 folder: collection BANC PIC 2001.216; cf. http://oskicat.berkeley.edu/record=b17666055~S1.